I'm so tired of UAC I could...

I ain't gonna change my ways, not am I going to stop installing or resetting or, in many cases, just plain using programs I have used for years. But I am getting pretty sick and tired of not being able to turn off UAC like I could before.

Why don't they just have people sign a waiver or something and then allow them to turn off that incessant, annoying, and pointless warning?

I've found sites that say they do just that, but what they do is turn on Admin mode, so then some apps won't even function.

The easiest way I've found to solve this problem is to create a Scheduled task for the program and check the Run With Highest Privileges box.

Then create a shortcut to run the task on demand ex:C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /TN "PowerShell ISE 64Bit as Admin"
The above runs the PowerShell ISE with Administrator privledges w/o UAC prompts!

I set these up so often I created a PowerShell script that provides a form to fill out and it creates both the Scheduled Task and the Shortcut to it.

I ain't gonna change my ways, not am I going to stop installing or resetting or, in many cases, just plain using programs I have used for years. But I am getting pretty sick and tired of not being able to turn off UAC like I could before.

Why don't they just have people sign a waiver or something and then allow them to turn off that incessant, annoying, and pointless warning?

I've found sites that say they do just that, but what they do is turn on Admin mode, so then some apps won't even function.

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@Joe, back a couple builds...I don't remember exactly when the change took place...if I turned off UAC via User Accounts in the Control Panel, it was "off" -- with no darn reminders that it was off. Now, it can't do that. I just keep getting told that it is turned off.

(Knock on wood) I have yet to have a program issue that was caught or solved by UAC. Issues everyone has, but the issue itself has let me be aware that it is there, not any indication of UAC.

I get the need for approval levels, especially in a commercial environment, and particularly with respect to the install of "strange" or rogue software, but there still should be, IMHO, a selection where one can acknowledge assumption of the risks and then turn the darn thing off.

I ain't gonna change my ways, not am I going to stop installing or resetting or, in many cases, just plain using programs I have used for years. But I am getting pretty sick and tired of not being able to turn off UAC like I could before.
Why don't they just have people sign a waiver or something and then allow them to turn off that incessant, annoying, and pointless warning?
I've found sites that say they do just that, but what they do is turn on Admin mode, so then some apps won't even function.
Hasn't anyone found a way to silence that incessant, mindless twit?
Chuck

Hi again Chuck! And yes!
Going back to the first five minutes, after I've installed a new OS, I will try to install some script or program and UAC pop's up it's little window telling me "blah, blah, blah" and at the bottom of that windows is a blue line, where I click to see the details.... then after clicking on that, I get a graph showing that the permissions thingy is set above center. On that graph is a slider bar, and I grab that bar with my mouse and slide it all the way to the bottom. It tells me "NOT Recommended", but I ignore that, apply the change and go back and run my script or program again, and this time I get no UAC messages. It remains like that for as long as I run that OS.
I've never had it revert back to its install default.
I do have scripts, to disable UAC, but I don't have to use them, if I just do the simple thing that I've just outlined for you.
The Windows programmers supplied you with everything you need to disable UAC, right there on your screen. You just need to use what they gave you. Many things in Windows are like that, if you just know where to look. You better believe that the MS programmers don't have all that nuisance stuff running on their PC's. Eh?
Most everything that I use to double the efficiency of Windows, is already built into the System (registry).
They call all that crap that just slows down Windows, "Safe Defaults". Bypass those and Windows can run much faster and more efficiently. It's been like that since Windows 95.

Cheers mate!
The Doctor
PS: Something you might want to get and run is a little program (script) called "Grant Admin Full Control". I have it installed on ALL of my 20 PC's, except the ones still running XP. With that, you can right click on any file or folder and become the legal Owner of the file or folder. Then you can work with the files it contains without getting those "you don't have access" messages.

Thanks, Doc. Three things: Where might I get 1) "Grant Admin Full Control", 2) when I set it to do so, some progs then don't run, giving me a "not meant to run in administrator mode", and three, when I push the slider all the way down (triggering the warning) it at times slides back up by itself.

I would be just as happy to not use any add-ons if I could just get more control by doing so, not less.